The jurors heard in a matter of seconds the description of the attack on the author, Salman Rusdi, in a lecture in New York in 2022. The prosecutor explained to his launch that the writer came very close to death.
The 77 -year -old writer is set to testify for his injuries to court. At the same time, the 26 -year -old accused, Hadi Matar, has said innocent both for the second instance attempt to assassinate, but also for a second -degree attack.
The second category concerns the injury of Henry Reese, co -founder of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, a non -profit team that helps exiled writers who held the discussion with Rusdi on the morning of the attack. Also Reese is going to testify for the event.
Still, the jurors will watch videos from the incident, which, and. At the same time, they are going to hear the surgeon who treated the author, who had lost devastating amounts of blood.
What happened in the trial
Hadi Matar said “Free Palestine, Free Palestine”, as he passed in front of the public theory, as soon as he entered the courtroom before the jurors entered. The head of his legal defense team, Nathaniel Barone, is ill and is being hospitalized, so they demanded a postponement of the trial. However, the judge rejected the request.
In addition, the public lawyer representing the defendant told the jurors in her opening speech that the accusing authority could not prove Hadi Matar’s intention.
He also pointed out some evidence, such as the ticket bought by the accused to go to the lecture “reflects the intention to come and watch a show”
How did the accident happen
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rusdi was at the Chautauqua Foundation in New York to give a lecture. One poet predicted the speech of the award -winning writer, on the protection of the authors from dangers.
As soon as he had begun his second sentence, accused Hadi Matar was thrown into the Foundation’s outdoor scene, and took about 10 running steps to the seated Salman Rusdi.
“Without hesitation, as soon as he arrived at Mr Rusdi, he deliberately and efficiently and efficiently dipped the knife to Mr Rushdie again and again and again and again and again,” said prosecutor Jason Schmidt. Salman Rusdi was stabbed about 15 times: on his head, neck, trunk and left hand, blinding his right eye and causing damage to his liver and intestines.
He passed through most of the 1990s hidden in the United Kingdom after being threatened to death for his 1988 novel “The Satanic Lyrics”.
However, he was attacked many years later, but did not prove to be relevant to the threats he received in the past.
Salman Rusdi published his memoirs from his attack and long recovery, in which he imagines a conversation with the perpetrator of the attack. Among other things, about the incident he had said that he thought he would die on the stage of the Chautauqua Foundation.
